Meyer Award and Medal in Plant Germplasm, Cactus and Succulent Society of America (CSSA), USA In 1990, Honorary Research Fellow, China National Rice Research Institute, and China Academy of Agriculture & Forestry, P.R.China In 1991, International Service in Crop Science Award, Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), USA In 1993, Honorary Fellow, Society for the Advancement of Breeding Research in Asia and Oceania (SABRAO) In 1994, SINAG Award (Guiding Light Award), IRRI, Philippines In 1994, Foreign Member, United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS), USA In 1996, Fellow, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India In 1996, Academician, Academia Sinica, Taipei In 1996, Member, TWAS, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World On April 18, 1997, Fellow, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican City In 1999, Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement References 20th-century Chinese botanists Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences alumni Environmental scientists University of Minnesota College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences alumni Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Educators from Shanghai 1927 births 2006 deaths Members of Academia Sinica Chinese geneticists Academic staff of the University of the Philippines Biologists from Shanghai University of Nanking alumni St. John's University, Shanghai alumni Taiwanese people from Shanghai